2:30-3:45P     TR     BH344

A portion of the above section reserved for majors
Above section meets with HIST T500

This course is designed as an interdisciplinary examination of the
Afro-Cuban experience in the 19th and 20th centuries.  This time
period covers the geometric explosion in the importation of enslaved
Africans following the Haitian Revolution, the Ten Year's War, the
Cuban-Spanish-American War, Cuban Independence, a host of U.S.
Occupations, the Cuban Revolution, and successive waves of immigration
into the United States in response to social, economic and political
realities of life under the new communist government.  In addition to
the changing social status and treatment of Afro-Cubans in and around
these historical events, the course will also analyze the creativity
of the African-descended Cuba population.  This will include a host of
musical/dance forms including son, rumba, salsa, Afro-Cuban Jazz, folk
art, visual art, poetry and literature, religious iconography and
practice, film, and sports.  The course will conclude with an analysis
of the social realities facing contemporary Afro-Cubans on the island
and those in the Miami exile community.